Top 76 Laurie R. King Quotes
#1. Suddenly, it occurred to me that my feelings towards the little man were distinctly maternal. Good God, I thought, how utterly revolting, and I turned my mind firmly to the problem at hand.
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#2. I have been very interested in the number of kids who have read the Sherlock Holmes books after reading the Mary Russell books. That's great. That's more or less how I rediscovered the Holmes books.
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#3. Whenever I go to England, I'm on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because that's where Sherlock Holmes retired.
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#4. I crawled into my books and pulled the pages up over my head.
(A Monstrous Regiment of Women)
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#6. I undid the wrappings with great curiosity, for Holmes did not normally give gifts. I opened the dark velvet jewller's box and found inside a shiny new set of picklocks, a younger version of his own. Holmes, ever the romantic. Mrs. Hudson would be pleased.
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#7. The house was still, weighty with the comfort of a thousand books.
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#8. Normally, one is only conscious of the room around one, but when no-one else is present, one's awareness is free to fill all the space.
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#10. Guessing is a weakness brought on by indolence and should never be confused with intuition.
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#12. I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives. It all depends on a combination of circumstances. If all the various cosmic thingummys fuse at the same moment, and the right spark is struck, there's no knowing what one mightn't do.
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#13. In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors' gestures and facial expressions, with a very few storyboards to nail down specific plot points.
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#14. But somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.
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#15. That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.
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#16. Travel broadens, they say. My personal experience has been that, in the short term at any rate, it merely flattens, aiming its steam-roller of deadlines and details straight at one's daily life, leaving a person flat and gasping at its passage.
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#17. I took the broom and made a wild sweep along the workbench, and an edge of the unwieldy head sent a tray of tools flying. Patrick picked up a chipped chisel and looked at me as if I had attacked his son.
Have you never used a broom before?
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#18. Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions.
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#19. Why the devil was my husband positively grinning - and with what looked remarkably like relief?
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#20. Would you rather have it outside? Now the heat's broken, coffee in the sun isn't a repulsive idea." "What a romantic offer: something not actively repulsive.
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#21. Life has ill-prepared me for finding any enjoyment in a press of merrymakers.
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#22. Pride is a sweetmeat, to be savoured in small pieces; it makes for a poor feast.
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#23. What does it mean, to lose one's mind? Where does it go? If a man is out of his mind, where is he? What is insane when the world is mad by contrast?
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#24. Oddly enough, the very considerations that had made marriage impossible for him were mirrored in my own being: a rabidly independent nature, an impatience with lesser minds, total unconventionality, and the horror of being saddled with someone who would need cosseting and protection - the
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#25. I slept in the bedroom used by Sabine Baring-Gould's wife when I was researching 'The Moor,' and later the Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor.
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#26. THE END OF a case is always long, tedious, and anticlimactic,
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#28. The lust for murder is not a rational thing. In queens, it is an instinctual response.
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#29. It is an amazing thing, the difference to one's powers of concentration a pair of comfortable shoes can make.
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#30. Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.
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#31. The night air moved up towards the Downs, washing over sea and orchard. I breathed it in, and thought that henceforth, loneliness would smell to me like fermenting apples.
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#32. I told you it was a backwoods. They probably still practice corn sacrifice.
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#33. The problem in turning independent thinkers loose on a matter is, they tend to go beyond the theoretical and seize the chance for independent action. Thus,
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#35. My God, it can recognise another human being when it's hit over the head with one.
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#36. The past is but the beginning of a beginning. - H. G. Wells, The Discovery of the Future
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#37. When you're putting together a story, sometimes you just have to skip over the boring bits.
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#38. The dead have a claim on us even heavier than that of the living, for they cannot hear our explanations, and we cannot ask their forgiveness.
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#39. The first spring in five free from the rumour of guns across the Channel, a spring anxious to make up for the cold winter, life bursting out after four years of death. All of England raised her face to the sun ...
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#40. Everyone is allowed a weakness, even women of the twentieth century.
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#41. The matches also came into focus: a cheap, bright label, in French. I picked up the box, slid it open, my nose stung by the smell of sulphur. Four matches. I took one, scraped it into life, held it to the oil lamp. A spot of warmth entered the room.
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#42. I could never, I knew then, lose myself "in love." Margery had accused me of coldness, and she was right, but she was also wrong: For me, for always, the paramount organ of passion was the mind. Unnatural, unbalanced, perhaps, but it was true: Without intellect, there could be no love.
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#43. Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.
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#44. I took to the Bodleian library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms to emerge, blinking and dazed with the small and feel of all those books.
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#45. I had given Holmes this wedding as a gift-only to have him turn around and hand it back to me tenfold. And now his two oldest friends in all the world had conspired against our plans, casually rendering our feeble attempts at a gift into solid gold.
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#46. Pray tell, she said, although her voice told him not to.
He ignored her tone, let out a thoughtful cloud of smoke, and said, ...
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#48. When the choice came down to tears, strong drink, or potatoes, one chooses potatoes. She
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#49. The hand of bone and sinew and flesh achieves its immortality in taking up a pen. The hand on a page wields a greater power than the fleshly hand ever could in life.
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#50. However, the mind has an amazing ability to continue worrying away at a problem all on its own, so that when the "Eureka!" comes it is as mysterious as if it were God speaking.
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#51. Men do, I've found, accept the most errant nonsense from a well dressed woman
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#52. I dislike the idea of a murderer employing children,' said Holmes darkly. 'It is, I agree, bad for their morals, and interferes with their sleep.' 'And their schooling,' added Holmes sententiously.
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#54. When we arrived at his cottage we had known each other forever.
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#55. I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head ...
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#57. ...and opened his mouth to speak in that precise drawl which is the trademark of the overly educated upper class english gentleman. A high voice: A biting one: definitely an eccentric.
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#58. When there is an emotional element in a belief, argument rarely has much effect.
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#59. You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.
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#60. Were she not aware that he was more than a man who could make plants grow. And
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#61. Since people who "discovered" bodies in odd places were often the people who had put them there in the first place.
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#62. The words given voice inside the mind are not always clear, however; they can be gentle and elliptical, what the prophets call the bat qol, the daughter of the voice of God, she who speaks in whispers and half-seen images.
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#63. Impossibility is a log thrown on the fires of love.
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#65. One must never disregard a message from the universe.
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#66. You see why I married her, Mycroft? The exquisite juxtaposition of ladylike threads and backhanded compliments proved irresistible.
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#67. Moments of pure relaxation were rare for me. There was always the nagging of books unread, work undone, time a-wasting.
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#68. You did tell me what a very superior sort of mind your friend has. What a pity he was born trapped in a man's body.
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#69. Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.
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#70. Love was the thing that kept a person going past exhaustion, beyond reason, after hope was at its end. Grit,
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#71. The last dog I had was an Irish wolfhound - now that is a dog. Rather spoils a person for a lesser canine, that is, anything under a hundredweight.
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#72. I was merely going to say that I hope you realise that guilt is a poor foundation for a life, without other motivations beside it.
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#73. The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era.
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#74. I mean really: If even Conan Doyle hungered to shove Holmes off a tall cliff, surely a young female of obvious intelligence would have brained the detective on first sight.
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#75. It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two hundred yards away, smoking a pipe ...
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#76. You think the knife was used, cleaned, then scraped through the blood on the floor?" Lestrade asked. "Evidently." "Why do that?" "Chief Inspector, I try to form my hypotheses upon data, rather than shape the data to match my wishes." And
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